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Wetbacks is a 1956 American crime film directed by Hank McCune and starring Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Gates and Barton MacLane. An independent production, the title is a reference to "wetbacks" a now derogatory term for immigrants coming into the United States across the Mexican border. Location shooting took place around Santa Catalina Island and San Pedro in Los Angeles. It has plot similarities to the 1950 film The Breaking Point.




Plot


The United States Coast Guard is concerned by the amount of human trafficking going on with large numbers of illegal immigrants being tricked into entering the country by promises of good jobs, only then to be economically exploited as cheap labor. Meanwhile, ex-Coast Guard officer Jim Benson, running a struggling charter fishing boat business, is reluctantly persuaded to carry a consignment of migrants from Mexico to California.




Cast


Lloyd Bridges as Jim Benson
Nancy Gates as Sally Parker
Barton MacLane as Karl Shanks
John Hoyt as Steve Bodine
Harold Peary as Juan Ortega
Nacho Galindo as Alfonso
Robert Keys as Reeser
David Colmans as Pedro
Louis Jean Heydt as Coast Guard Comdr. Randall
Roy Gordon as Hoppy
I. Stanford Jolley as Fred
Wally Cassell as Coast Guard lieutenant
Tom Keene as Highway Patrol Inspector
Salvador Baguez as Mexican Policeman
Jose Gonzales-Gonzales as Immigrant
Gene Roth as Truck Thug




References






Bibliography


Craig, Rob. Ed Wood, Mad Genius: A Critical Study of the Films. McFarland, 2009.
Spicer, Andrew. Historical Dictionary of Film Noir. Scarecrow Press, 2010.




External links


Wetbacks at IMDb
Wetbacks at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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